gardening/farming

Frustrated by stubborn weeds in your yard or garden?Learn how to identify, eradicate, and prevent common gardenweeds - and stop them from invading our precious natural areas -in this workshop series hosted by the 4-County Cooperative Weed Management Area.

Frustrated by stubborn weeds in your yard or garden?Learn how to identify, eradicate, and prevent common gardenweeds - and stop them from invading our precious natural areas -in this workshop series hosted by the 4-County Cooperative Weed Management Area.

Join volunteers, residents and civic leaders in celebrating the grand opening of the NE 72nd Avenue Community Garden, part of Verde’s Let Us Build Cully Park! project.

The Thomas Cully Park project is a collaboration of local organizations working to create a park in Portland’s Cully Neighborhood, a low-income area where residents have limited access to environmental spaces. Intertwine Alliance partner Vigil- Agrimis has developed the Master Plan and Phase One of the project, which incorporates a community-based approach to creating employment and educational opportunities. Verde, together with contractor and workforce partners, constructs Phase One from July 2012 to June 2015. 

Designed by students at Scott School, the NE 72nd Avenue Community Garden is Phase One’s first completed improvement. At 2pm, City Commissioner Dan Saltzman and Scott School Principal Verenice Gutierrez will be speaking along with representatives from: the Portland Parks& Recreation, Vibrant Village Foundation, Northwest Health Foundation and Kaiser Permanente. 

Dig Into Sustainable Gardening! Naturescaping is the practice of using native plants to create sustainable landscapes that are good for people, animals and the environment. Learn how to design a low-maintenance, chemical-free landscape that conserves water and minimizes pollution, all while saving you time, money and energy! You’ll get natural gardening and landscape design tips, take a field trip to a nearby naturescaped garden, and receive a comprehensive workbook anda native plant to get started!Space is limited and advanced registration is required. Register online at http://www.emswcd.org/workshops-events/register-for-a-workshop.  Information: 503-222-7645

Learn to start healthy seedlings indoors, using low cost methods with big results. The topics covered in this workshop include the materials you'll need to get started, the types of plants that should be started indoors, timing, planting and caring for seedlings, hardening off and using your space efficiently to grow a large quantity of plants. Participants will go home with a planting calendar, a list of resources and a six pack of plant starts.

Please pre-register for this workshop. You can sign up here!

Presenter Information: Kathy Katz is a local grower who has for the past 25 years been studying small scale/intensive food production models and learning to incorporate them into her own operation. She has spent many years supporting and volunteering for non-profit organizations because she feels it's important to get nutrient dense food to everyone in our community. A longtime contributor to Growing Gardens programs and supporter of their mission to teach the important skill of growing you own food. Currently Kathy is running a small seedling operation, mentoring new gardeners, helping with a few local school gardening projects and working on returning to the small farm her family owns.